At this stage in the project, designability rearranged some priorities on my initial matrix. It is true that rent and accessibility influence affordability most substantially. However, within a field of designable priorities that reach beyond finance into well-being, I felt that spatial flexibility was a primary factor in developing a typology.

Though there is tremendous value to shared community space, I wanted to develop a typology that provided private exterior space for each individual resident. Not as an additional ornament, but as an essential room in their living routine. For creativity, entrepreneurship, agency, and dignity. Collective space could be developed at a wider scale once the individual space was established. My inspiration for this idea was the affordable-housing development called “Villa-Verde” in Constitución, Chile.